Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-03-19
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~ - - q xx004 q voW OIys VIII uOu
- pahlio nseeiaG in 1shlemanS
- G1flDons a Laneas1oe Geoerally,
11oa "a oonSpeonoA relating 10 the
GV 1on1ang beece che SsnssA sor
5111 linn1foa - eAanged govsrnmsnt
- cd oihss oitiss Of The seatA
Gn1n e 49, le9lnaaG3oo, n enacted 10
y - r vAseh y y pending, would be
Srno116nl1y MT tAnoa0tee city under the
RGe : 1oW charter end 10 materially
mnay existing forms of government
Vo 0nA conc old olhoeA institute others
- neW ond untried here 10 alter ON.
- osnussA duties and responsibilities
s}30nGnGe ne modes Of asssasing property
RI 0Aklng and providing for the cost Of
GoEooA UgWsssGo and other improvements
~ n1naging The watsr and light supply
2lnA1D ra6ioally rsoeganiEs the school sys-
- - ~ eaty, Destroying IL present indie
4 Tnoo0oo nom councils and the even bal.
- q poEties In H. membership and estab.
s&&1nl noW methods OF oeadministration.
4A11e and other proposed changes are %
no1oh1e Tint TIE oitissns' meeting to consider
(nom ohould b we'll attended there should
bofkoo disouasion, for public enlightenment
- ~ ehe Instruction Of our representatives.
~ = - wishes and interests OF their constit.
~ pgonacto this the reading portion Of our
I cl1aDons ought 70 study some Of the salient
nneuseb q the bill In advance Of the proposed
Sneelang. The cot oovsrs Al pages Of pam
: rhle4 end = entirely toc lengthy for news
m1nh .pespared with view TO especially pre-
- II departures Il makes from Lsncas.
f8so pEoDont form Of government affords
= 0nR10 maeogiAl fue reflection.
ita - II RSnAA AP1Nt0al char
4 ~ = Isis With the supplement thereto eu.
r 011oe = 1851, when the new division oi
Uuu04 goappoTtion0ent OF Councilmen, &C.,
eoek lleec; togseher With various general
! lnt.vexs. years since our municipal or.
& nnnl1a13o0, and the ordinances adopted from
I 9ne - time by city councils under the au'
3 1qg1N vo0eo0 In them.
a sA1puAefn1 NOT UNDER THE WALLACE ACT.
e1lled wallaos cot I" OF 1874, COY.
- - seaaes - ~ commonvealth, wss
10e o1AhoGa1o municipal lA4ialasjon en-
Z l1neo the new eoastitutioo became op-
oeaavo I'D various actg have since been
posed 10 revise IL provisionA 10 remedy il
alleged detects and 10 supply its supposed
0odciencieA Many Of these, II not special In
namA were % In eject their operasion b.
ang limited to certain clas OF cities, or 10
1hoss within narrow limits q H,gnoi.t,on
s'sa.s Sc 10y 2 saalf ~: Ssain he aoption
1711 nt9p- ''ohdsmnsd them before
aaNteF part Of the Law Of 1874, from
aB6on "A 70 section 81, related 70 cities Of ths
<(thsn) third class (betweeu l0,0Oo and 100,
& 6OO population) which might DO incorporated
= olbor the passage OF the oct Or 70 such onl!
q them then in existence which would
formally accept il provisions instead of con
tnuinG under the old charter.
This formal acceptance was made by ScrAn
ton, Reading, Harrisburg, Erie, Altoons
wiiliamsport Allentown, Titusville, New
castle, Carbondale and Oil City.
Only the frst thirteen sections OF this &C
Of 1874 have been regarded - binding on q
citieA The others were optional
I'd Lancaster never accepted that act;
nover surrendered nor merged the charte
under which 1t had existed % q municipality
toe over half . century; hence 1t avoide
the embarrassments into which some Of II
Gistog cities bave fallen It does not need an'
haO mot demanded the relief to procur
s which they would seek to bring all the cite
5 q the state under form OF government I'd
jueeed % their own pressing wants and pc
. oullAr conditions Thus It happens tha
many Of the forms proposed BY the new leg
ia1as3on of 1857, while familiar to cities alread
living under thom-f0r they are substant ITALY
xoon6Ctments OF tho oct Of lE4-are move
and unfamiliar to Lancaster; and the Ques
ti00 oe their enactment now Ia of more con
eogn 70 this than TO any other considerabl,
Il city In the commonwealth.
THE RANK OF THE CITIES.
The new oct reaches the cities classifi cd q
follows under its provisions: